"Since its introduction iChat has become the de facto Instant Messaging client on Mac OS X, allowing users to communicate using text, audio, and even video chat. The new version of iChat in Leopard opens up these capabilities to other applications on the system, allowing those applications to provide content through an iChat session." My take: Now, if Apple would implement support for MSN and other protocols for those of us (especially in Europe) who do not use AIM/ICQ, this could be a whole lot more interesting.
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Indeed it does support jabber (a.k.a. XMPP). The new leopard release will also improve on the jabber support. All of the iChat Theater features will be available between iChat users over jabber but features between other clients will depend on their support for the audio/video codex, etc...
Edited 2007-04-22 17:42
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One nice thing would be if the new version supported plugins for protocols. I'm all for using iChat but having contacts over at yahoo and msn (which can't be easily convinced to switch) requires me to use Adium + Skype.
I'll definitely stick to Adium until iChat supports additional IM plugings.
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Over here (The Netherlands) it's just pretty much the same like salgiza described the situation is Spain. I don't use instant messaging because everybody is using MSN and I avoid using Microsoft products as much as possible.
The dutch language has a verb for "being busy with instant messaging": "MSN-en". So MSN in holland is pretty much synonymous with IM-client.
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iChat supports Jabber and Jabber has a nice feature called "transports". Jabber transports allows you to connect to another network via jabber. For example, I only use a Jabber account for all my instant messaging needs, although I have AOL/ICQ and MSN friends in my contact list. I connect to AOL/ICQ and MSN via transports, and to me an MSN buddy looks like just any other Jabber contact.
If you like iChat you should check out how to use Jabber transports.
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I connect to AOL/ICQ and MSN via transports, and to me an MSN buddy looks like just any other Jabber contact.
If you like iChat you should check out how to use Jabber transports.
Using Jabber transports involves exposing your ICQ/Yahoo etc account name and password to a third party.
http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2000-November/003539.html<...
http://lists.imendio.com/pipermail/gossip-dev/2004-November/008217....
http://mattfleming.com/node/130
Why do you need an account on the non-Jabber network? Because there are no common protocols for communication between IM networks. It's as if you needed to use different email clients to talk with people who use Compuserve or Hotmail or AOL for email. The only way Jabber can talk with other networks is to act as a "proxy" for you on other IM networks (important: this means the Jabber gateway needs to store your username and password so that it can log in as you; if you're not comfortable with that, don't register with the gateways -- or run your own server!). - http://www.jabber.org/user/userguide/
Unless (as mentioned in some of the links) you are running your own server, the server acting as your gateway receives and forwards your login info to AIM/MSN etc, logging in for you (simpified). If you trust your gateway, great, but it's just not as comfortable to me as using a service directly.
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No, Apple did some useability studies 15 years ago in which they determined that AIM/ICQ were the correct protocols to use. So you are wrong to use Yahoo! etc. and must use what Apple has decided.
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Google is a pretty big company if you ask me 
http://talk.google.com
if you want to talk to everyone.. you have to speak the same language.. who gives a crap about MSN? it's a closed protocol.. only Microsoft will have reliable service using it.. let's all speak Jabber instead! It's an open and free language..
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